http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Thoughts and events en Vox Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:31:32 +0200 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/inspired-by-the-death-of-mcnamara-and-other-events-of-the-day.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/inspired-by-the-death-of-mcnamara-and-other-events-of-the-day.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/inspired-by-the-death-of-mcnamara-and-other-events-of-the-day.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:31:32 +0200 A decision is by essence anti-intellectual. No decision can ever comprehend the immense complexity of reality. Decisions brutally simplify, cut clear, disturb and erase reality to replace it with a new palimpsest of obscene simplicity. Until the ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/inspired-by-the-death-of-mcnamara-and-other-events-of-the-day.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d40005011016a9a6d4860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/on-the-common-saying-fake-it-until-you-can-make-it.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/on-the-common-saying-fake-it-until-you-can-make-it.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/on-the-common-saying-fake-it-until-you-can-make-it.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:14:34 +0200 It seems that some people have misunderstood the saying "fake it until you can make it", they just "fake it until everyone else believe they can make it". Particularly true of politicians. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/on-the-common-saying-fake-it-until-you-can-make-it.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d40005011018494b35860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/les-liaisons-dangereuses.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/les-liaisons-dangereuses.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/les-liaisons-dangereuses.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:12:37 +0200 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/book/6a00e3989f94d4000500fa9690da5d0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00e3989f94d4000500fa9690da5d0003-50si" alt="Les Liaisons dangereuses" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Peut-on y voir un début de féminisme ? La marquise de Merteuil semble imposer son caractère par la manipulation et l'intrigue, seules armes qu'une femme pouvait avoir pour asseoir sa position sociale à l'époque. Son génie lui sert à détruire des ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/les-liaisons-dangereuses.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fae8d4ccfc000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/new-project-making-use-of-the-nicts-for-diffusing-knowledge.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/new-project-making-use-of-the-nicts-for-diffusing-knowledge.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/new-project-making-use-of-the-nicts-for-diffusing-knowledge.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:34:43 +0200 These days I am more active on my other blog about my research activities, mainly cosmopolitanism. If you came across this blog be sure to go and visit it, even if it is still under development. The goal is to build an entire web site dedicated to... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/new-project-making-use-of-the-nicts-for-diffusing-knowledge.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fad69dd4de0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> nict academic tools research diffusion blog academics knowledge diffusion http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/utopia.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/utopia.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/utopia.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:16:32 +0200 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e3989f94d4000500fa968b5d0e0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00e3989f94d4000500fa968b5d0e0003-50si" alt="Utopia" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Utopia: a political idea that cannot be transformed into policy in the short term, but only in the longer term. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/utopia.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fa968b5d130003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/slowly-catching-up-on-blogging-guerilla-warfare.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/slowly-catching-up-on-blogging-guerilla-warfare.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/slowly-catching-up-on-blogging-guerilla-warfare.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:50:47 +0200 A while ago, I discovered a blog written by an academic I knew only for one of his great books Ringmar, Erik (2008). Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Cambridge: CUP, Cambridge ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/slowly-catching-up-on-blogging-guerilla-warfare.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d400050100a7e7f9f3000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/iq-tests.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/iq-tests.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/iq-tests.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:43:55 +0200 I am wondering what the point with IQ tests is. No, I did not just filled in one, and frustrated by the results decided to write a furious post on my blog about how egregiously diminishing and inaccurate they actually are since they may not have ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/iq-tests.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fad69863af0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/political-science.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/political-science.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/political-science.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:54:19 +0200 I started studying law, then I thought it was really not worth it spending precious hours of my short life-span reading tons of useless books and learning by heart meaningless rules that were in them anyway (not to mention the conceitedly loftines... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/political-science.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fad698f9e50004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/stats-and-internet-fame.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/stats-and-internet-fame.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/stats-and-internet-fame.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:13:38 +0200 To my surprise, I realised that the most entries on my blog where on my post "UN NCRE 2008", where I described my experience at competing for this exam. No wonder! When I google "UN NCRE" my post appears second right after the official UN web site... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/stats-and-internet-fame.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fad6967b7e0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/thought-for-the-day-stop-crying-like-a-baby-and-suck-absurdity-up.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Frank Ejby Poulsen) http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/thought-for-the-day-stop-crying-like-a-baby-and-suck-absurdity-up.html?_c=feed-rss http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/thought-for-the-day-stop-crying-like-a-baby-and-suck-absurdity-up.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:15:57 +0200 Observing man, humanity makes me cry. I know that the mature defence mechanism would be to laugh about it. I am trying to grow up. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://frankejbypoulsen.vox.com/library/post/thought-for-the-day-stop-crying-like-a-baby-and-suck-absurdity-up.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f94d4000500fa9683f7d80002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>